O'Brother
There is an abiding circle: one where romance and tragedy exist together and hope coincides with desperation as a coil in nature as much as the unseen. In this understanding lies the dark themes and bruising medium of O’Brother. Carrying the weight of the luminance and spacey textures from their 2009 EP, The Death of Day, the Atlanta, GA five some have grown into sounds of scorching heaviness and punctuated melodic interruptions that act as puzzles in-between the groaning feedback of Garden Window, the band’s debut full length.
Garden Window displays more density, as the songs themselves bask in longer time frames, a dynamic intensity had to be obtained to create interest from listeners the whole way out. “We wanted curve balls,” Merritt explained as the root behind the softer interludes found midway through the atmospheric explorations.
Always a band that makes albums rather than songs or thunderous quick timed anthems, O’Brother’s Garden Window stands as a complex, yet elegant and elegiac, dance that can be felt beneath the skin. Even when O’Brother are at their most ethereal the reality of the ground stays in sight.
Session Tracklist
1. Machine (Parts 1 & 2)
2. Division Of Man
3. Ascension
4. Easy Talk
5. Poison
6. Lay Down
7. Sputnik
Hometown
Atlanta, Georgia
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